MUNDO CARRASCO Once his last-inning blast made the big, affable slugger a national hero. Then his cynical, daring reporting made him the voice of his city. But now he's let his unslaked desire for the gorgeous, amoral Mijares drag him into the quagmire of Mazatlan politics, and he's striking out. Over-matched by corrupt , killer cops, and shifty politicians and the left and right, he tries to make it home with his reflexes, cynical sense of humor, and ballpark wisdom. |  | MIJARES
Monserrat Guzman y Gortari--under the revolutionary nickname Mijares--is a spoiled child of wealth and political influence turned post-Marxist monkeywrencher. Her forbidding control and the desperate game she's playing for control of Mexican public life almost, but not quite, banks her smoldering, scorched-earth sexuality. Is she playing Mundo for a fool, or just resisting her attraction for a man who always comes through for her?
|  | PALOMINA
The scholarship student at the dance conservatory lost faith in the strictures of Art and grew a pliable shell over her natural good-natured joyousness while dancing naked in wings and feathers under the "nom du tabledance" Palomina. The object of generic lust from men, she regards Mundo's obsession with Mijares wistfully and wouldn't mind getting some for herself. Even more than she'd like, just once, to stand up on a Carnival float wearing a sash and crown.
|  | MAYOR FREDERICO SENDEROS He couldn't run his own life any better than the city, but just when Mundo's about to quit trying to cover his butt for the Press, the Mayor ends up horribly murdered. Which makes for some great jokes around the press bar, but then it starts looking like Mijares is next to be killed...and Mundo's also invited. |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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